Quotes From "The Three Musketeers" By Alexandre Dumas

Love is the most selfish of all the passions. Alexandre Dumas

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it. Alexandre Dumas

After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just. Alexandre Dumas

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute. Alexandre Dumas

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. Alexandre Dumas

As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the Huguenots exterminate the Catholics--all in the name of religion--he adopted a mixed belief which permitted him to be sometimes Catholic, sometimes a Huguenot. Now, he was accustomed to walk with his fowling piece on his shoulder, behind the hedges which border the roads, and when he saw a Catholic coming alone, the Protestant religion immediately prevailed in his mind. He lowered his gun in the direction of the traveler; then, when he was within ten paces of him, he commenced a conversation which almost always ended by the traveler's abandoning his purse to save his life. It goes without saying that when he saw a Huguenot coming, he felt himself filled with such ardent Catholic zeal that he could not understand how, a quarter of an hour before, he had been able to have any doubts upon the superiority of our holy religion. . Alexandre Dumas

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. Alexandre Dumas

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. Alexandre Dumas

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady Alexandre Dumas

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream. Alexandre Dumas

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. Alexandre Dumas

You are young, " replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones. Alexandre Dumas

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose. Alexandre Dumas

Very well, young man, very well, " Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre. Alexandre Dumas

The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth. Alexandre Dumas

All for one and one for all. Alexandre Dumas

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. Alexandre Dumas

Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men always supporting each other, never retreating, performing singly or together the resolutions they had made in common; four arms threatening the four points of the compass or all turning to a single point, must inevitably, be it surreptitiously, be it openly, be it by mines, by entrenchments, by guile, or by force, open a way to the end they wanted to reach, however well defended or far off it might be. Alexandre Dumas